Lightning Bolt Prototype 1
_bob_CrIpE_2025-05-07T15:50:54+00:00Lightning Bolt Prototype 1 Green heart core with Lignum Vitae top and back - two of the hardest and heaviest woods in the world. [...]
The Other One’s
_bob_CrIpE_2025-01-17T19:53:42+00:00Bolt Prototype 1, Bolt Prototype 2, Lightning Bolt, Top Hat, Eagle, Tribute Garcia's Intended Guitars Steve Cripe was a wood craftsman who specialized in [...]
Lightning Bolt Prototype 2
_bob_CrIpE_2025-01-13T22:54:02+00:00Zebrawood core with Cocobolo top and back, laminated Cocobolo and maple neck with Brazilian rosewood center stripe, 22 fret ebony fretboard, laminated headstock, black [...]
Guitarmaker’s Idea
_bob_CrIpE_2024-12-19T20:23:07+00:00Guitarmaker's idea was Dead reckoning Series: COLUMN ONE [CITY Edition] St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg, Fla. Author: JEFFREY BRAINARD Date: Jan 26, 1996 [...]
Palow on Cripe
_bob_CrIpE_2024-12-26T20:28:57+00:00While browsing the Internet back in 2008 for information on Cripe guitars, I found a post from Adam Palow on a Steve Kimock Discussion [...]
A guy walks into a bar …
_bob_CrIpE_2025-01-29T17:05:23+00:00From phone conversation with Robert December 2009 I’ve been trying to think about when I first met Steve Cripe, it was in Miami. I [...]
Unbroken Chain #54
_bob_CrIpE_2024-04-29T20:18:05+00:00This article was written by Stephen Cripe and printed in The Grateful Dead fanzine Unbroken Chain issue #54 in March 1996.
Unbroken Chain #47
_bob_CrIpE_2025-01-17T17:44:10+00:00This article was written by Stephen Cripe and printed in The Grateful Dead fanzine Unbroken Chain issue #47 in March 1994. Theresa McFarlane: Unbroken [...]
Cripe’s Notes
_bob_CrIpE_2024-11-16T17:46:19+00:00When Pat O’Donnell retrieved files from Cripe’s workshop, they were in disarray and most of the pictures that were to supplement Cripe’s Notes were [...]
9. It’s Up To You – Kimock’s Guitars
_bob_CrIpE_2024-10-12T17:21:03+00:00Tongue N' Groove As it would happen, the Garcia connection to Cripe guitars would continue well past the loss of both musician and luthier in [...]
8. Brokedown Palace – Picking Up the Pieces
_bob_CrIpE_2024-09-25T19:17:59+00:00"All the birds that were singing, have flown except you alone" - Robert Hunter Steve’s friend Adam Palow, a fellow craftsman (albeit of amplifiers), would [...]
7. Smokestack Lightning – The Accident
_bob_CrIpE_2024-09-25T19:12:08+00:00"Whoa oh, fare ya well, never see, a you no more." - Howlin' Wolf Hal Hammer, a guitarist, wood-joiner and luthier with credentials sufficient to [...]
6. He’s Gone – Garcia Passes
_bob_CrIpE_2024-09-25T18:58:19+00:00"He's gone and nothing's gonna bring him back." - Robert Hunter With Pete and Helen Cripe aging into their golden years, Cripe chose to relocate [...]
5. Here Comes Sunshine – A Commissioned Guitar
_bob_CrIpE_2024-10-12T17:00:46+00:00"Askin' you nice, now, keep the mother rollin' one more time." - Robert Hunter Making a second guitar—one that had been ordered by a [...]
4. Built To Last – Garcia’s Guitars
_bob_CrIpE_2021-05-25T18:07:41+00:00"Show me something built to last or something built to try." - Robert Hunter As any wood-joining luthier well knows, the quality of the source [...]
3. Crazy Fingers – The Wood Joiner
_bob_CrIpE_2024-11-20T20:33:45+00:00"Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow" - Robert Hunter Steve and Rhonda Cripe As established, the road to Steve’s stint in the final [...]
2. St. Stephen – The Man
_bob_CrIpE_2024-10-10T15:06:35+00:00"St. Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes" Robert Hunter On the unfortunate summer day he of his demise, [...]
1. Comes A Time
_bob_CrIpE_2024-09-25T16:44:08+00:00"Gotta make it somehow, on the dreams you still believe" - Robert Hunter Stephen Cripe 1992 Florida No question—Jerry Garcia was Stephen Cripe’s [...]